Chapter 25: Betrayal from Blood Relatives
Holding the half of the insect left, the transparent mucus stuck to the palm of his hand, Shen Tingyu's little face wrinkled, feeling a sense of miserable life.
Hey! That's disgusting!
The insect's broken tail flapped wildly, trying to break free from her grip like a fish trapped in the shallows.
Shen Tingyu dodged the insect's slapping attack, "Xiao Qi, can you help me see, what is this thing?"
【Good host】
[Ding, scanning started..., scan completed successfully; system checking..., check successful]
[After Xiao Qi's scan and inspection, host, the insect in your hand is called a lure insect, which is the favorite food of the Soul-Eating Gu.]
[Soul-eating insects usually hide in the brain and corrode the nerves. They can devour a person's rationality, amplifying the host's anger and making them unable to control their emotions, becoming impulsive, manic, irritable, and even bloodthirsty.]
[Until his sanity was completely devoured by the child Gu, turning him into a mindless killing machine, only able to obey the orders of the mother Gu.]
Shen Tingyu was stunned for a moment, then his mind immediately reacted: "So, the reason why Xin Hongying became the bloodthirsty tyrant in the original novel is because he was infected with the Soul Devouring Gu and lost his mind."
[Ding! The progress of the wise ruler training task has increased by 10%. The current progress of the wise ruler training task is 9%!]
Hearing the system's emotionless prompt tone, Shen Tingyu was startled at first, and then ecstasy surged like a tide.
This is simply the sound of hope.
“Oh my God!”
"Xiao Qi, did you hear that? 9%! My mission progress is finally no longer negative. I'm so happy~"]
[Sprinkle flowers~Sprinkle flowers~, congratulations to the host! You've successfully found a way to complete the mission! Xiaoqi is happy for the host too.]
The veins on Xin Hongying's forehead bulged and beat rhythmically, and his eyes suddenly became unfocused.
The Queen Mother smiled and asked tentatively, "Emperor, why don't you eat? Is the food not to your taste?"
Xin Hongying had a blank expression on her face, and said in a gentle and calm tone, "No, I'm just full."
The Queen Mother's eyes became fierce, although her face remained gentle and her smile was still loving. From a distance, it was a picture of deep love between mother and son.
Luring the insects into his body could only temporarily make him lose the ability to think and obey her orders.
Time was running out, so the Queen Mother asked directly, "Concubine Yu can calm your mind, so why don't you want her to return to the palace and stay by your side?"
Xin Hongying: "She was having an affair with someone in the Dali Temple, secretly communicating with someone else. I am very angry."
Shen Tingyu beat the struggling insect in his hand, and just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he felt that something was wrong with Xin Hongying over there.
The tone of this silly boy who answered whatever was asked was nothing like his usual shrewd and scheming self!
She shook Xin Hongying's arm and wrote on his arm: "What's wrong with you?"
Xin Hongying didn't move or respond, something was wrong.
"Could it be that the half of the insect that drilled in affected him?" Shen Tingyu stretched out his leg and kicked Xin Hongying fiercely, but it was of no use at all. Instead, it almost allowed the remaining half of the insect to drill in.
"That was a close call! Not even a bug was restless."
She held the balled insect a little further away.
At this time, Shen Tingyu began to miss the slender silver needle, which could help him wake up after a needle prick.
Concubine Yu is so bold!
The Queen Mother was completely caught off guard and her face instantly darkened.
She is really more of a hindrance than a help. She did it, but was discovered by the emperor. If she was not still useful, she would have been abandoned.
She subconsciously asked, "Who is it?"
Xin Hongying said mildly, "I don't know."
At this time, the veins on his forehead began to throb slower, which was a sign that the sub-Gu was about to finish eating.
The Queen Mother was stunned, her face as black as ink. Zi Gu had actually eaten up all the attractant insects that she had cultivated with great effort so quickly.
It can't even last half a cup of tea. The quality of this batch of attractant worms is too poor. It must be disposed of and a new batch of attractant worms must be cultivated.
And... Concubine Yu!
She couldn't let the Emperor notice anything was wrong right now. The Queen Mother moved her lips together and spoke very quickly, "Forget about this matter. Bring Concubine Yu back to the palace."
After a brief struggle, Xin Hongying slowly said, "Okay."
The blue veins no longer emerged, and the ink-black eyes gradually became brighter, and the pupils moved slightly. Xin Hongying was worried about Shen Tingyu, worried that she was bored, which was why she was so restless.
So when the Queen Mother mentioned the matter of letting Concubine Yu return to the palace again, Xin Hongying agreed without hesitation.
Although she met with setbacks from the Imperial Master and her attempt to lure the insects went awry, nearly causing a disaster, she still achieved her goal. The Queen Mother found an excuse and took the opportunity to leave the Lakeside Pavilion.
After everyone left, Xin Hongying put his sleeves on the table and whispered, "Master, they've all left. You can come out now."
"What on earth happened?"
Hearing this, Shen Tingyu lifted his sleeves and rushed directly to an empty teacup, “Ahhh, this is so disgusting.”
She threw the transparent bait worm rolled into a ball and the shot was successful.
Looking at her strange movements, Xin Hongying lowered his eyes in surprise, with a gleam in his eyes.
"I'm dirty." Shen Tingyu opened his hands wide, not daring to look at his own hands in disgust, feeling helpless.
"What on earth happened?" Xin Hongying asked in confusion, her eyes fixed on the teacup. She seemed to throw something into the teacup.
He reached out to touch the teacup and observed it carefully.
Shen Tingyu's mind suddenly exploded, the alarm bells rang, and she shouted loudly: "Stop, you are not allowed to touch it."
Xin Hongying's hand stopped mid-air and she asked coldly, "Why?"
"There's half a Gu worm in the teacup!"
This sentence contained too much information. Xin Hongying pulled his hand back, his brows furrowed in a cold frown, and his fingers tapped the table in an orderly manner: "Master, please tell me in detail, what exactly happened?"
"Tell me slowly, I want to hear the whole truth."
After confirming that the disgusting transparent insect was still moving at the bottom of the cup and couldn't come out for the time being, Shen Tingyu hurriedly closed the cup lid, not wanting to look at it again.
The truth was on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed it back. Shen Tingyu hesitated for a moment. Tyrant... No! It was Xin Hongying. He once said that he hated betrayal.
Then how could he accept the betrayal from his blood relatives?
Looking up at him, Shen Tingyu said carefully: "Let me remind you first, you must calm down. Don't get too angry after hearing the truth, be careful not to get angry and hurt your body."
With a bad premonition in his heart, Xin Hongying's face remained calm and he said coldly, "Speak!"
“That’s it…” Shen Tingyu wanted to put her hands in her pockets, but she was disgusted by the mucus on her hands. She opened her hands slightly and told everything she heard and saw, including the characteristics of this insect.
Shen Tingyu was a little worried and asked cautiously: "It's just as I said, are you... okay?"
Xin Hongying lowered his head, his covered brows hiding the murky look in his eyes, and the big hand on the table slowly clenched into a fist under his sleeves.
Under his long eyelashes, his eye sockets suddenly turned red. His throat rolled up and down, and a deep voice sounded, sneering: "You are lying!"
The voice was unusually firm.
He didn't believe that his mother would treat him like this! Not at all!
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